Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts

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Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter.

The strategic logic is simple: the more models running on Azure, the less Microsoft depends on expensive OpenAI and Anthropic models.

The company is also swapping external models in products like Copilot for its in-house MAI family, which performs significantly worse in independent benchmarks.

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